Today, at the end of the first day of AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m of Dreams~, the live that the group has long desired, it was announced that AKB48 will be releasing their next single on October 31st, 2012.

Following Gingham Check, this will be AKB48's 28th single. The new single, titled [Kakkoii] (meaning "Cool"), will be of the same style and image of past singles like RIVER, Beginner, and Kaze wa Fuiteiru, and at the same time pushing the frontiers of AKB's music.

The single will come in Type A, Type B and Type C, all three sharing the same title track and a common coupling song, and one more song that will be different for each type. Including off-vocal versions, each type will have 6 tracks, and a DVD included that will contain music videos for the 3 songs and a bonus video.

As usual, each copy of the first press limited edition will come with 1 of 2 handshake event tickets, and the regular edition will come with a random photo. In addition, both limited and regular additions will come with a voting ticket for Request Hour Set List Best 100 2013 for a limited time period.

It looks like they're trying to spread the popular members across the groups, instead of having them packed into A/K primarily. It really won't affect senbatsu selection or anything like that, most likely. We could see the loanees (Anna with AKB, Yui with NMB, etc) in the singles, though, which would be boss.

The new single, titled [Kakkoii] (meaning "Cool"), will be of the same style and image of past singles like RIVER, Beginner, and Kaze wa Fuiteiru, and at the same time pushing the frontiers of AKB's music.

Wait, KazeFui was supposed to be a cool song pushing the frontiers of AKB's music? I didn't really pick up on that

^I edited my 1st post because RenX and kieyuku posted that the title will be ''Kakkoii.'' Since we don't have an official post by AKS and/or King Records, and noting your input, I'll leave it blank for now.

That's such b/s. No Umechan either. Aki-P always says the senbatsu is selected based on the image of the single, but I think I even saw Sakura-chan in there for this performance. Stupid unfair popularity contest.

Secondly, auto-tune and male dancers?! Why do they do the dance break and not AKB48? It doesn't even make sense. The song sucks, but all the members look super epic So yeah, won't buy but will collect pics.